The Achievement Gap in U.S. Education: Canaries in the MineHere, Mano Singham takes a look at the problem of the Black/White achievement gap in the context of larger political realities and argues that in order to understand it we must determine what is happening within the educational system as a whole. |
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U S Schools and Even Rarer in Poor and Minority Schools | 137 |
How and Why Did It Get This Way? | 159 |
Index | 183 |
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